Salt

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1830-1840

DimensionsH: 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.); Rim L: 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.); Rim W: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.); Base L: 6.0 cm (2 3/8 in.); Base W: 4.2 cm (1 11/16 in.)

MediumSlightly opaque silvery blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.181

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of four vertical sections, opening at the corners, bearing the pattern from the lower edge of the scalloped base to the top edge of the rim, with a base plate that formed the legs that terminate in florets and concentric circles of blossoms and florets around a central flower, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior and probably the top of the rim.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 260, pl. 71, no. 2.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 35, CT 1.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 176, nos. 659 (powder blue), 660 (opaque white).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, nos. 148 (silvery blue), 315 (opaque white).

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 349, no. 443, colorpl. 443, p. 251.